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Mastering Rubrics: Best Practices and Implementation for Effective Assessment

Dive into the world of rubrics with this comprehensive guide on how to create, implement, and use rubrics effectively for assessing student performance. Learn about the advantages, disadvantages, and types of rubrics, along with best practices for program-level assessment. Access valuable resources to enhance your rubric development process.

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Mastering Rubrics: Best Practices and Implementation for Effective Assessment

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  1. Rubric Development 3/25/2011

  2. Overview • A Little About You • Overview • A Quick Note about Validity • Introduction ofRubrics • How to Create a Rubric • Using a Rubric, Best Practices

  3. A quick note about validity • Validity is ”the process by which test scores take on meaning” (Jeri Benson) …I always think about Aaliyah here.

  4. Rubrics • Rubric: a tool used to evaluate performance assessment • Helps provide a defensible process for assigning scores (or grades) to products (such as essays or research reports) • Note that rubrics help calibrate, or make more consistent, scores assigned by raters

  5. Advantages of Rubrics • Focuses attention on relevant aspects of topic/skill area • Helps distinguish among different performance levels • Provides common way to share feedback • Could provide faculty and students common language to talk across sections or classes

  6. Disadvantages • Time consuming/ challenging to… • Create • Achieve high consistency among faculty raters • One rubric can only be applied to limited types of performances. • Same writing rubric for biology lab report and poetry?

  7. Types of Rubrics • Sparse Rubrics vs. Behaviorally Anchored (examples) • Holistic vs. Analytic (examples)

  8. Let’s Create Our Own Rubric

  9. Best Practices (1) • For Program-Level Assessment • Align with program-level SLOs • Procure input from multiple stakeholders • Fellow faculty • Assessment expert: jepettaz@uncg.edu • Students/Graduates/Board of External Advisors

  10. Best Practices (2) • Share with students when project/paper assigned • Always rate with consideration of rubric • Use multiple raters • Train raters • Pilot rubric first with smaller group, perhaps once section • Strive for functional, not perfect

  11. Resources • AACU’s 15 VALUE Rubrics: • http://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/ • JMU’s Writing Rubric: • http://www.jmu.edu/assessment/resources/JMU_Final_Writing_Rubric_f08.pdf • Useful Article: • http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=8&n=14

  12. Contact Information • Keston Fulcher • fulchekh@jmu.edu

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